WA Minister for Agriculture and Food Alannah MacTiernan says caged eggs could be phased out within a decade.
abc.net.au/news/caged-eggs-could-be-phased-out-in-wa-in-10-years/101377416Western Australia's Agriculture and Food Minister says she wants caged eggs off the state's supermarket shelves within the next decade.Caged eggs will be phased out nationally by 2036, recommending an end to caged eggs by 2036."There's a case for reducing the introduction period.
Commercial Egg Producers Association of WA president Ian Wilson said he struggled to see any benefits in the transition. "To cater for that increase and then trying to cater for the decrease in housing systems with the loss of the cage system, we really will find that we will struggle to have enough eggs," he said.
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